Last Week Today Episode 202 Show Notes for Monday, June 17th, 2025
A Failed G7 Summit, the Middle East, Ukraine and LA, Doug Ford is Safe, Proposed Federal Tax Cuts, Chinese Funding LA Riots, Where’s the Beef?, DOGE Savings & “Fake” Eggs.
A Failed G7 Summit
As outlined in the June 12th, 2025 Open Canada post, “Canada’s G7 Moment: Articulating the Carney Doctrine in a Fractured World,” the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, was supposed to be Canada’s big moment to flex diplomatic muscle.
Instead, it turned into a mess, and a sideshow, where politicians talk, but can’t act, unless the US decides to participate.
As noted in the June 16th, 2025 Global News post, “Donald Trump leaving G7 summit early because of crisis in Middle East,” the real star of the G7 was always US president Donald Trump. When Trump bailed from the meeting early, claiming he had to tackle “multiple international crises,” talks began to falter.
According to the June 17th, 2025 BBC News post, “Today's G7 is briefly the G6 as Trump leaves partners at the altar,” the event’s final day “feels a bit like a wedding without the bride.”
Trump’s exit allowed him to skip talks with Ukraine’s Zelenskyy and Mex…
